Sheet metal templates.

bryan_lagrange

I would like the ability to select a pre saved sheet metal template that when selected from a drop down list would fill all fields when starting a sheet metal model. You could either enter this information in an area set up for this in account settings or upload the information similar to custom materials are uploaded. To go along with this, if you were starting a new template have the ability to set the material type and after all fields were entered you could save it as a new sheet metal template where you would give it a new name and that information would be stored for future designs.

I logged an improvement request:

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9406/sheet-metal-templates#latest



Bryan Lagange

brucebartlett

I'd also love a way to be able to have the selected material roll through to the stock material and automatically come in on the drawing. At the moment I am using a stock material library created by uploading a material properties spreadsheet, this works to save having to retype the chosen stock material for every part but kind of not really the right way to do it. The less time on adding meta properties the better, generally stock material is being chosen with the creation of the feature based on material properties so it would be the ideal spot to have input material info added upfront and get consistency.  and reduce post-processing work.

lana

@bryan_lagrange and @brucebartlett
Thank you for this well though IR, I hope more describe their use cases so that we can come up with a universal design.

MBartlett21

@lana
If this gets implemented, will FS functionality be released?

lana

@mbartlett21
This is most likely to be implemented on FS side, we'll try to make it as extendable as possible.

MBartlett21

+1